I Am Roz Doyle

So, three exams down, two to go. It's currently the end of the exam-filled roster week in which I had zero exams. ZERO. My last two are on the same day (what's up with that?) on Monday. So yeah, I'll be at school from about 11:30 to 5:30. That's the duration of an entire day of school. I guess it'll be like my final goodbye or something? As if spending 6 hours there is somehow an homage to my old school days? Oh, listen to me jabber "old school days" as if I've been free for years!

Regardless, the Friday after said Monday, which is incidentally one week away from today's Friday, is the school formal. Sure, whatever, that's enough said about that. But then the week after is schoolies! I'll be heading down to Wilson's Prom to chill at the beach for four days with ten of the greatest guys I know. I'm really, really looking forward to it.

Good stuff aside, it's time for the obligatory "bad stuff" section of the blog: still stressing about next year. yeah, it's tiresome, but I pretty much freaked out the other day cos pre-selection kits and stuff were due and I was divided between doing kits for courses I'm not super excited for and not doing them at all in the hopes that what I really want to do will come along. As I have stated in earlier ramblings, I expect some sort of poignant sign that will expose next year's intentions right to my face. "No, it doesn't work that easily!" I hear you say.

But last night I went to the Melbourne Radio School with my hip-cat daddy-o for some open evening they were having. And I must say, ever since I got obsessed with Frasier, I always wanted to produce radio, until I kinda forgot about it, somehow assuming in the back of my mind that to make it in radio you have to live in Seattle. Last night just brought it all back and I thought to myself, "hey, I could do this for a living!" Apparently the pay is fairly decent and it's a very fun job to have, which I don't doubt. Now then, the question is, do I attempt to do a course there and get into a job producing radio? The major problem is: everyone who wants to work in radio has to move to some freakin' deserted regional city to get any exposure, something I haven't the slightest intention of ever doing.



So, here we are, back at the start. Still nothing.
Oh, also, I DIDN'T create those pre-selection kits. Bah! A pox on organization!

Study "Break"

I realize that this time right now could be better utilized by school work, since my exams start on the first of November. Quite frankly, the only subject I've FULLY studied for is Maths, just because it's easy to study for, answering multiple-choice questions and all that. Yet, ironically, it's apparently the subject I'm doing worst in although I feel fairly confident in it. Even did a trial exam for Philosophy last week and didn't do too badly on that! Surprising, I know!

Oh, listen to me talk as if you have the slightest idea what my levels of knowledge are for any subjects that I take. Literature is becoming increasingly scary as the exam draws nearer, and I'm almost positive that all the exam markers up at VCAA are dried-up old lesbians. Hell, the entire class thinks so, even the teacher. The markers are indeed pretty sad to know all 90 texts back to front.

Still, I don't feel the need to study all that much for Media. I've only lost 4 marks on the SACs across the year (oh shucks!) and I hope I dominate the exam in turn. This reflection makes me harken back to my initial "internal division" (curse you, Literature!) as to what I'm going to do next year. I went out to brunch(?) with a mate this morning, and he was asking me what 2011 will bring. I said I want to do nothing. It's been a while since I've admitted that to myself - what with the recent slew of VTAC applications and Uni open days and all, I've been manipulated into thinking I don't have to do anything next year. It was only today that I remembered, 'wait! No I don't! I can do anything I want!'

So suck it, anti-autonomous units. 2011 is my year, I say! I've only been out of school for two days and I'm already feeling like it's completely over!

On that note, so long, class of 2010. I'll miss each and every one of you.

You see, Barbie is a constructed representation.

The school play went great, thanks for asking. Being Elvis is rewarding in the pool of mega-babes department.

So now that it is the start of September, things are rolling into gear. Three more months and I'm done with... everything. In the last week of November, it's the formal. Then after that is the presentation night. And that's it. I'm done. Gone. Goodbye Bayside. I'm going to miss you.

Whatever emotions I'm going to feel late-November are not at all like the ones I am experiencing right now. It's the pre-November feelings, the encumbering, yet frightful feeling of OHMYGOTHIAMSOSTRESSEDOUTRIGHTNOWABOUTPRETTYMUCHANYTHING. Am I over-reacting to everything that's happening to me right now? Or is it that my life IS actually changing to be more dramatic?

Now there are some things going on with myself, with others, between myself and others; things I can discuss freely and things I don't want to write on the internet for fear of who'll read it.
Surprisingly, school is easing up a bit. Cos everything is slowing down before exams begin. SACs are ending, hopefully, and my personal life is instead taking the front seat. When the hell did this happen? I haven't been able to focus on myself since January!


What scares me the most is what I'm going to do come 2011. Am I gonna move out? Am I gonna go to Uni? TAFE? Gap year? Who am I going to keep in contact with? How the fuck am I meant to get my licence with all the shit rules that Vicroads have invented? Is my health going to deteriorate and should I be doing something about it (I eat nothing but junk. Have been for eighteen years)?
Why do I feel so socially inept outside of school? Why do I have to tell people exactly what I think about them? Why am I so gosh darn tactless? Also, where did my moral compass go? I've totally lost it and it depresses me to no end.

I would still, on the whole, like to end my life. But the mere fact that I'm stating this publicly proves that I'm not willing to do it and I want help. Psychologically speaking, this is an SOS. If I really wanted to do it, it'd be done by now.
But since that's not gonna happen, I'll stay in my emotional limbo for now where headaches are perpetual and my bed sheets don't change, and wallow.

Perhaps next year I'll just not do anything and sit in my room watching 30 Rock till I die of natural causes.

Last Minute

Why do I keep listening to Kylie Minogue classics this afternoon? I've got Fever written all over me.

I've noticed an alarming trend surrounding me lately. Everybody who is similarly-aged to myself is suddenly snapping into preparation mode: everyone's got 2011 figured out except me. I mean, what the hell am I going to do once I finish year twelve? My guess is sitting around watching Sabrina DVDs and working at Dick Smith until suicide knocks on my door. I mean, ideally, that would be my final choice, but considering I don't really have any plans, I can see that hypothetical scenario becoming a firm and steady reality.

Career? Not a clue. House? Need funds. Employment? We'll see.
I'm going to be eighteen in just over two months now, which frightens me a tad. But of course, I'm also very excited for the new opportunities that arise. I don't like the idea of sorting out my entire future before I'm eighteen. I could manage to get away with it, ALMOST, but VTAC applications close two days before my birthday. Perfect.

For months now I've been kinda hoping that an exciting career possibility will just jump out at me when I'm not really searching for one. That way I'll know it's actually something I'm pumped for, rather than just looking through job guides, saying "that'll do" to myself and applying because I have nothing better. If I'm not taking a course in something that genuinely excites me, then what is the point of doing it? I should probably start listening to others' advice, as I've been constantly hearing "it doesn't work like that" - I'll believe that when I see it. But it'll totally be too late by then. I'm a very last minute sort of person.

If I were talented, I'd write songs

Too bad I have next to no talent in the writing realm. Ever since I've been doing poetry in Literature, lyric-writing has crossed my mind, but to save myself the embarrassment, I shan't try.

Speaking of school stuff, I really should be doing a bunch of it right now, but - who cares? I know I won't be saying that come November when exams come around, and I'm very foolish for choosing to disregard it now. I've done nothing tonight but watch Family Guy, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, get fish and chips and Facebook. I did a half a page of my Media folio, too. Wow, when you stack the evening's events up together, you can tell my night really was wasted.

Now then, "Why does John need to write songs?" I hear you ask. Well, John is a self-involved little boy whose seldom-updated and backlotted online blog isn't enough self-indulgence and feels that music would help him convey his emotions to a minority of people who care and a majority who don't. I think that as I've matured I can analyze my feelings a little better and figure out what's happening around me more straightforward (there's those Lit classes working for me once more).
I think 'maturing' was a poor word to use there, since I'm just about to delve into the fact that I think I've changed and become less mature lately. I've become more crass, less sensitive, and all-round, more unpleasant. At least, that's how I'd view myself from a third-person standpoint. But why? Why have I changed my external personality so quickly? One word: fear. Much to my chagrin, I'll pull some valid comments from a philosophical text by... oh dear... I can't actually remember who. Anyway, they say that human beings act the way they do, relate with each other and create moral principles out of pure fear of one another. That's probably the reason I've changed myself, and once again, I don't know why I use words that aren't neccessary, like 'probably'. It's definitely the reason. At least, I guess, I'm not far off enough to not notice it (unlike some people I know). This probably (hell, this one's pretty close to 'definitely') sounds very pretentious of me to even bring up and sounds like I'm trying to better myself with intellectual benefit. Whatever, let's cast that aside. I've changed my personality because I'm afraid of the social aspect of teenage life. I'd bet everything I own that that's the same reason anybody else conforms to the values and principles that they were, at some point, against. My extra excuses and reasoning won't cut it, and, as much as I'd hate to face it, aren't fooling myself. For other teenagers in the same dilemma, I pray that they can take the blindfold off and see what they're really changing for.

Don't end a sentence on a preposition, John!

Oh well, horribly confusing rambling aside, let's get down to the good (and bad) stuff: LOST FINISHES NEXT WEEK. Yes, six years of my life that I've devoted to that show is finally coming to fruition. Only two more episodes (the first of which airs tomorrow) and then it's over. Forever. I'm going to be so sad, I think I'll have to take a day off school (thank GOD with the time difference from America it'll be a Tuesday. Oh, how I hate Tuesdays).

Au revior - until you read my blog again?

Australia Day 2010

Dare I say that the last 8 months of my life have been the most hectic of them all. It's been about that long since I posted an entry, so I'll quickly fill you in.

They FINALLY opened the Dick Smith in Frankston in late April. Since then we've changed management about four times. That's roughly the same amount of times something has happened to piss me off and I've wanted to quit. But since I'm getting good hours, the people there are nice and it's not a difficult job... I'll stick with it until school becomes too hard to balance. Shouldn't be too long now. Thankyou, year 12. ><

Speaking of school, year 11 has possibly been one of the best years, despite the work overload. It was balanced by the joy of going in to H Block every day. H Block has got to be my favourite place to go - I just love everyone there and the memories we make there will last a life time. I'm excited to see this new building they're replacing it with (since H is fair old), although knowing Bayside, it won't be built until after we've graduated.

Not just my surroundings have changed over the last 8 months, but I certainly have changed a heck of a lot too. I think 2009 was my rebellious year where I really changed into letting myself take more risks and trying new things. Some of which I'm not proud of, but I still don't regret. Mistakes are needed to mould you into who you become - as HIMYM states it, there are some mistakes you just have to make.
Another thing that changed me in 2009 is the realization of my sexuality, something I had been denying for two years. In the back of my head I always knew I was gay, but I pushed it away until I couldn't fight it anymore. About half-way through the year I said "ah screw it" and faced facts. By that point everyone pretty much knew anyway. By the way, this doesn't impede my faith at all. I still believe in God and to all those people that think that God disowns homosexuals... sorry, but I have to disagree. Pretty sure God loves everyone.

Just after my birthday I got into a relationship with an amazing guy. It was the best relationship I've ever been in. For anyone who knows me, you'd know that I don't fall for people easily, I never have. But this time something just clicked. Anyway, three months in, I get slapped with the "I'm not ready for this" speech and it's over. Words can't express the rejection I felt. Call it pessimistic or whatever, but it'll take me forever and a half to find anyone I am actually interested in again, if ever. I'm not conventional with my relationships (nor am I really conventional with anything) so finding someone that feels the same is very, very hard for me.
After three weeks, I'm about 90% over it, but there's still that part of me that is incredibly depressed and wants to die. But I'm an optimistic specimen - I know things will turn around for me. It's the 'when' that I'm unclear about.
And for the record, no, I don't think I'm a hopeless teenager with rampant hormones that solely control my brain. Emm jun hinm.

Getting to 2010 now, January has been pretty poor so far. NYE was okay, spending it with good mates at Emily's house, but there were certain things that made the night unenjoyable. In January I also got dumped and I've been spending most of the month anxious about school going back. Don't get me wrong, school is generally a fun place to be, it's mostly the subject chocie thing I'm worried about. It wasn't until yesterday (three days before school goes back) that I finally decided on my final subject. I'm not happy about it, but it'll have to do. The line-up is as follows: Literature, Media, Philosophy and Further Maths. Instead of Maths I was originally doing Psychology but I hated it during "roll-over" last year (the most wasteful two weeks of the year in which they attempt to kick-start students with no textbooks or preparation for year 12 by giving them 10 days of year 12 classes, feeding them information they will lose and/or forget by the time holidays are over) so I dropped it. Geez, I've changed subjects a lot over the past year, haven't I?

Anyway that's my life up until now. Now let's chat instead, talking to myself makes me feel ludacrous. :D Is that how you spell that?

What could make this situation better? Oh, I know! The Holocaust!

The book for English I have to read before school goes back is titled "Night", by Elie Wiesel. It's the author's auto-biography cleverly wrapped in fiction, sort of - it's his survival tale of The Holocaust in novel form. Sure, it's boring and depressing. But reading it sure beats staring at metrosexuals on the train.

I'm only thirty pages in, and it hasn't gotten exciting at all. It's gonna be Generals Die In Bed all over again, the book we studied at the end of last year about life in WWI. In fact, the writing style is basically the same. So far, it's been jumping to plot points so quickly by using misguided, 5-word sentences. "Dad said we have to move. The next morning, we all got up and moved to the ghetto." What the hell is that?! Being that the book is about such a dramatic event, I was expecting something a little more thrilling. I hate reading, I really do. English class has ruined books for me.

I am really the laziest person I know...

I blame glandular fever.
Oh yeah, I'd probably better get diagnosed with it first.
I reckon I have it though.
Hypochondriaaac!

Anyway I haven't been on Blogger in almost a month. What have I been up to...

Well, I've become quite addicted to Facebook as of late. I'm actually on it more than MySpace now. It's like a mature MySpace for older people. I love it.

Oh, did I mention we got a cat? We got a cat. His name is Jax, and he's cute and cuddly and annoying at times. Just like kittens are.

I've been working at southland still. only yesterday did we get the word that the store is confirmed for the first week of March. How incredibly annoying! But I'm liking work. It'd be 99% awesome if I didn't have to travel so much for it.

Katherine and I decided to host a New Years party in her backyard with as many youth group people as possible. Besides us, we had 9 guests. It was awesome-town. I brought my computer to use as a jukebox. At like 11:45, the word was, "Let's go to the beach!", rendering the entire party moot.

I got accepted (like there was a test) into Vetamorphus; a Christian bible-study peer-group one-year VCE VET course. Enough adjectives? I thought so.
The first major retreat is at the end of February. Quite good. School starts back on the 28th of Jan. Now I'm wondering, when are we gonna have peer groups?

Speaking of peer-group leaders, my future one, Miss Sarah Mason, got married to one maths teacher Andrew Backholer last week. It was a beautiful occasion, and basically a Bayside reunion. Success for marriage!

Besides the happiness, I'm in a fairly crap mood right now. Thanks for not noticing. Well, I tried to avoid it.

Have a good... season!

Just a lil' taste of VCE

You know how some schools have "rollover"? I hate that. We had one day of VCE today, like an orientation to all of our classes.

My classes for next year are as follows:

• English
• Maths Methods
• HHD (3 and 4, so there was no orientation)
• IT
• Media
• VETamorphus (no orientation)

So 4 subjects in 7 blocks gives me ample free periods :D OH, AND FREE PIZZA AT LUNCH TIME.

English
Well, English seems hard. A book to read over the holidays (please, just an assignment-free holiday? PLEASE?!) and complicated outcomes. Please, no. And I hope I got Rietveld instead of Creek as my teacher... ugh.

IT
Scott very much ruined IT for me by telling me I'll "have fun" and that "Dr Hopkins talks too slow". Which he does. I won't have fun at all! There's 9 people in that class, and one of which is a girl, 5 of which are year nines (10s for next year). Oh boy.

Maths Methods
Only Tom and myself are Methods people who did General this year, something Walker was not pleased about. He thinks we won't cope in Methods without doing it in year 10. He's probably right, but we told him that we chose to do General, but Curtis-Morris suggested we do Methods because we're both in IT. I bet we'll swap out of it at some point next year.

Media
I've gotta say, I'm really excited about Media. Mrs Rivera, I've never had her, but I will now. The class is fairly big, 17 people next year, compared to like 10 or so that were in it this year. Everyone has different skills in different areas of media too, so group work will be perfeeect.

Tomorrow is free dress day because of presentation night that night (I'm so not going in lieu of drama) and Thursday is a pointless excursion to Queen Vic for HHD and Food Tech people. Then Friday is a 9/10 break-up at AMF and then the year is over! Success!

An incredible eight-foot heap!

Sorry. Listening to Len.

It's been a while since I've posted a blog. I kind of planned on doing one in October, but couldn't be bothered. Now it's the FIRST of November. What are the odds?!

If you missed the epic LAN party, you are a shameful human being. Scott, Andrew and I organized a LAN party in my church's hall - an incredible two days of food gorging, prize winning, player-beating and fire starting. Oops! Did I say fire starting?
Anywho, for the whole of the two days, I set up my camera (yes, I got an uber 8.1mp camera for my birthday, which was the 2nd, and the lan was the 3rd-4th) to take a photo of the room every 30 seconds. Dare I say, mission accomplished; except when my camera died and needed charging. Here's a video link of what the time lapse ended up looking like:



It was my sixteenth birthday on October 2nd. :D I had such an incredibly hectic day. Let me see if I can remember everything I did...
Had to be in Southland at 9am for a 2nd interview for Dick Smith (not the Southland one, the new one in Frankston) and I brought Katherine with me, something she was not happy with, having to get up so early. :D Buahaha.
Then, I went for my Learner's test at about 1:30 that day. Totally passed by one question I believe. But for some reason, I needed a doctor's certificate because I'm on medication before I could get my actual licence; something I didn't get t do till the following Tuesday, when I then got my L's, but came back the day after because the girl didn't give me the log book. Goth, don't you just hate VicRoads?
Continuing on my birthday day, I donated blood that afternoon at about four. Dare I say, that was the funnest experience I'd had in a while. I highly reccommend it. I got a blood donor card back a few days ago, where I found out my blood type is A-Pos. Same as Casey! Woohoo!
Then that night I went out for dinner with the family, and then had to be in bed early so I could get up at 5 and go to the LAN party early the next day.

Phew. Speaking of things involving Andrew and Scott, they roped me into joining them on the recent Science astronomy assignment, where we filmed an 8-minute movie over 2 days about the sun (another occasion involving a time lapse that my camera did). Here's another YouTube link to my time lapse:



Quickly, last week I sang at church for the first time. Something Mason got me into doing after hearing me sing at the school's music night. :D it was exhilirating.

Ah. Sorry about the really long blog.
Adios!

Baby Alicia

Baby Alicia. She's tough, she's loud, she's new. She's plastic.
Her name is actually Grace Faith Bayside, but I hate it, and already told Alicia Backholer I'd name it after her.

Yeeeep, a few days ago I had the renowned Health and Human Development baby to take care of. This year the school got a new state-of-the-art model, 2008, full pro. I had it on Monday and Tuesday, until Wednesday morning. 48 hours of epic fake baby.

Gone are the days of the key-in-the-back-to-make-it-shaddap thing, we got a waterproof wristband this time that you have to sensor to the baby so it recognizes you as the parent. I got 96% of good care over the two days - missed a feeding, a diaper change, roughly handled it and let its head drop back. Oops.

Dare I say, that one of those weren't my fault? The missed feeding happened on Tuesday during Maths when it cried and wouldn't shut up, so Clare and I took it outside because my wristband wasn't working. When it's recognized, it makes a chiming noise, and the chime didn't take, so I didn't know what the hell was going on. Also, I think the diaper change may not've been my fault MAYBE. Because on Wednesday morning I managed to chime it, but it was still crying, and nothing worked, but I think I may've been half asleep and tried changing it and putting the same nappy back on. Oops.

The simulation was supposed to start at 9, but after Fiona had it on the weekend, it charged for two hours and it started at 11am on Monday. It didn't make a peep till 12:30 and Mrs. Cooper kept poking her head in and telling me off for not holding it properly. Haha! Oh well!

I eventually figured out what cry means what, as you do, and that after lots of feeding/changing, which is almost ALL it does, it'll be silent for a few hours and go to sleep. It made really weird breathing noises every 8 seconds. On Monday night, it only woke me up once, at four, which I think was really peculiar. It was silent for 5 hours.

Tuesday night was a bit different, it woke me up 4 times and cried 10 times during that block, but I didn't really mind. It's just annoying when you're in the shower and have to turn it off to feed it for 20 minutes, naked. Judging by the hours of silence thing I mentioned, I figured it'd do that again when I showered Wednesday morning, so I showered at 4:30 again. I agree with Casey - you eventually just give up on sleep.

DO. HEALTH. AND. HUMAN. DEVELOPMENT.
IT IS SO MUCH FUN.
^____^

S Block

It's the second day of the semester. I'm not at school today cos I'm fairly sure I've pulled a muscle in my back.

That building that spent an extra 2 months in the making (finished by May, my foot) at school was finally ready... at the last second yesterday morning. Early morning. It's been named S Block, although the woman who organizes the building names and timetables and such didn't realize that we already have an S Block. It's the sport shed. So bye bye, sport shed! You're becoming part of Q Block!

Anyway, the building is pretty radical. It's mostly a senior science block, with a large science room in the back, two smaller ones, and two general purpose classrooms with a foyer. Nobody took into account that the foyer needed a room number as with the other rooms, so now a lot of the rooms have changed after they printed the timetable, although it says 'final'. As all Bayside kids know, a 'final timetable' is never final.

How's your son doing at school?

My mum's is doing pretty well. Due to my awesome semester one report, I've been bugging her every single day about buying me something as some parents do for their kids when their reports are good. I've never asked or anything. It's not abnormal if my report is fine cos they usually are. I only had 7 subjects this year after I totally dropped PE. The school got a new report system this year so the old thing with the X's in the approripate box (that didn't always line up when I typed it out) is a nogo. I like it better this way. Eh, find out yourself:

ACEDEMIC PROGESS REPORT for
JOHN GLOVER
Semester One 2008
Year: Ten

- Home Group Report
Just the first 10 minutes of the day. Mr. Woodbridge likes to ramble, but it's okay. Stef asked after a devotion recently, totally misleading thinking that she'd ask about the devotion, but said, "can we get out before the bell for once?"

Uniform: Excellent
Punctuality: Excellent
Manners/Attitude: Excellent
Involvement in Class Devotions: Satisfactory

John has been in the following activities this semester:
Open Day Guide

"Home Group involves marking the attendance roll, listening to relevant Daily Bulletin notices, and participating in a short devotional time. This semester our Home Group has addressed the You Can Do It concepts of Getting Along and Confidence, and each of the students has been given the opportunity to lead a devotion. John shared with the Home Group about his baptism."

Days absent: 7
Days late: 0
(as if I haven't been late, just never brought a late pass to class :D)






- Dramatic Media
Overall grade: C+
This particular subject involves drama and media in one. I miss having Shad to teach this, but Ms. Sayer is still pretty awesome. We share it with the year 9s though.

Academic Learning
Personal journal reflections: C (I never really did them)
Group docudrama performance and production: B
Monologue script and performance: A+
Written test: C
Docudrama script: C+
She didn't put the Exam on there for some reason, but if I recall, C+?

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Very Good
Homework: Very Good
Behaviour: Very Good
Organisation: Very Good
Self Direction as a Learner: Very Good

"John is a well mannered and enthusiastic contributor in class and usually strives to do his best. He has produced some good individual results this semester and consistently demonstrated an attidue of co-operation and positive engagement within the group context. John is a pleasure to teach."






- English
Overall grade: B+
English was pretty tough this semester. As Mrs. Cooper likes to call it, "introduction for VCE English." We did stuff like persuasive essays, speeches, film breakdowns, yadda yadda... I enjoyed it. :D

Academic Learning
Reading: A
Language: A+
Writing: B+
Speaking and Listening: B
Exam: A

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Excellent
Homework: Excellent
Behaviour: Very Good
Organisation: Excellent
Self Direction as a Learner: Very Good

"John is working consistently to achieve pleasing results, overall a very high B+. John's writing is wonderfully expressed as he manipulates language to convey a clear message. he domestrates a sound ability to write in different forms, following the criteria set in class and his exam result of 88% clearly displays his excellent grasp of the concepts and skills covered this semester. John is encouraged to engage more in class, seeking assistance when needed, to ensure he is fully prepared for VCE."






- Bible
Overall grade: C+
At school, Bible class is kinda boring. We did a lot of the chapter John. The assignment on it, I never actually finished... oops. I believe during the exam Casey and I were passing notes. She wrote me a full page one cos I did it to her earlier, and I gave the note back to her with all the spelling, grammar and punctuation corrected in red pen. :)

Academic Learning
Test: A
Mid-Year Exam: D+
Gospel of John Assignment: NA

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Very Good
Homework: Satisfactory
Behaviour: Very Good
Organisation: Satisfactory
Self Direction as a Learner: Satisfactory

"John has worked well in Bible throughout the semester, obtaining good results in formal testing and passing the difficult mid-year exam. His behaviour has been consistently good. Our Gospel of John assignment was too late for inclusion in this report. John has completed a good semester's work in this subject."






- Science
Overall grade: A
I'm loving this subject! Physics was hard as ever, but Chemistry was really simple. We did a lot of stuff about learning the periodic table, which was simple enough when we had to know the first 20. AJ made this subject such a pleasure, he's such a blast.

Academic Learning
Physics Theory Work: S
Chemistry Practical Work: S
Physics Test: B
Chemistry Theory Work: S
Chemistry Elements Assignment: A+
Exam: A+

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Excellent
Homework: Satisfactory
Behaviour: Very Good
Organisation: Excellent
Self Direction as a Learner: Excellent

"John achieved excellent marks this semester in Science. He was quiet and diligent, working consistently and showing competency. His theory work for both Physics and Chemistry was at a very high standard. The Physics Test was quite hard, yet John managed a very good mark of 70%. John excelled in the Chemistry unit, showing a great grasp of the concepts explored. His elements assignment was terrific, in which he produced a representation of Neon. His mark for the Chemistry Test (96%) and Exam (92%) were very pleasing. He is to be commended for such a good effort this semester."







- History
Overall grade: C
Admittedly the worst subject I ever had, have or will have. Sif I'm doing it in year 11. I hate History! It happened! Get over it! Mrs. Hooper is awesome though! Too bad History totally sucks nard... We did a lot on WWI and such. I don't get the timeline of wars, AT ALL. I finished my exam so early that I wrote the lyrics to two songs on the back.

Academic Learning
Breaker Morant Film Assignment: A+
Western Front Newspaper Article: A
Boer War Essay: B
Gallipoli Response: B
Exam: D+

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Very Good
Homework: Very Good
Behaviour: Very Good
Organisation: Satisfactory
Self Direction as a Learner: Very Good

"It has been a pleasure to teach John this semester as he is a co-operative pleasant student. John has achieved consistently pleasing results in his assignments and essays, particularly his review of Breaker Morant. Unfortunately John's exam result did not live up to the standard that he has achieved in his assignments this semester. Although he completed the exam 40 minutes early, he did not use his time constructively and as a result did not achieve a grade comparable to his ability. It is hoped that he will displa a more mature attitude in the end of year exams."






- General Mathematics
Overall grade: A+
I AM SO SICK OF WRITING THESE THINGS. But I really have nothing better to do. Even though my teacher is well-renowned youth leader and radical dude, AB, I keep accidentally calling him "Mr Backholer" cos other people occasionally do. I suck at Maths, big time. Must be something about having AB that made me do well. :D

Academic Learning
Tests: A+
Bookwork: S
Assignments: S
Exam: A

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Excellent
Homework: Excellent
Behaviour: Excellent
Organisation: Excellent
Self Direction as a Learner: Excellent

"John is without a doubt the leader in academic excellence in his class. His test results are consistently near-perfect and his homework is consistently up-to-adte. He was the only student to hand up both components of the assignment on the due date. John aims to keep inappropriate classroom discussion to a minimum, causing no significant problems within the classroom climate, and he often uses his class time to assist other students who may be struggling. John's first semester result is very pleasing."






- Health and Human Development Unit 1
Overall grade: S (VCE subjects are out of S and NS for some reason)
By far, my favourite subject. With my favourite teacher, Mrs. Hooper! Well, I don't know if I like her or AB more. But still, she's awesome. We've covered a lot of the lifespan and forms of health and development, particularly on adolescents. I'm so glad I chose this for my VCE subject. :D

Academic Learning
Outcome 1 (Ryan's Health and Human Development Case Study): A+
Outcome 2 (Casey Study - the transition from Childhood to Adulthood): A+
Outcome 3 (A written report - Youth health challenges): A
Exam: A+

Attitude to Learning
Effort: Excellent
Homework: Excellent
Behaviour: Very Good
Organisation: Very Good
Self Direction as a Learner: Very Good

"John has been an enthusiastic member of this class, contributing to class discussion with some very interesting insights. In the three Outcomes this semester John achieved 46/50, 46/50 and an A. For Outcome 3, john chose the topic of "Depression". His report was well researched and informative. For the mid-year exam John achieved 100%, he had studied well and wrote some terrific answers. Teaching this class has been one of the highlights of my teaching career and John has been among those students who have contributed to this."





THEN, at the end of my report was some little thing Rebecca from FremantleMedia filled out about my time on work experience. Really not important. :D

Certificate of Achievemeeeeeent *harmonious*
What a semester.



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Uh, yesterday, Katherine, Mollie and I went to Southland (among other places) and I printed 55 6x4 inch photos that are now all over my wall. Loving it.
I should really get a picture of it.

Friday the 13th

Stupid Sarah Lay. Totally stole my idea for a blog title.
I kept reminding everyone it was friday the 13th today. Haha, take that random year 9 & 10 girls who had cervical cancer injections! :) Bad luck, much?

Anyway, despite the terrible coldness (quite possibly the coldest school morning in all the realm) I had a terrific day. Got the results of my first VCE exam I ever did, Health and Human Development - 100%. YEAH BABY. I'm so proud. Totally not gloating or anything...

Only Zach and I got 100% out of everybody, and he technically got 84.5 out of 85 (actually, I was recounting mine like everyone else did, it was actually out of 87, and he got 86.5) but as a percentage it's st00pad to write 99.5% so, hey, why not do what we all love to do, and round up?

I had planned on writing a whole blog on the following, but I'm not sure if I could be bothered. The Lost season four finale last week. Anybody that watches the show - best episode ever, right?! I'd totally spoil it, but... actually, I may. Highlight the following to see what happened... The island was finally moved under Jacob's instructions, but Ben did it to sacrifice himself, because the person who moves it can never go back. Cept, he moved the island and it completely disappeared, leaving nothing but a tabula rasa of ocean. The freighter exploded, killing Michael and possibly Jin. We finally got to see the Oceanic Six escape. What the hell happened to Claire? She's not gonna be in the show next season. :( Locke became the leader of the Others. In the flashforwards, a man named Jeremy Bentham kept visiting the Oceanic Six and telling them to go back to the island (although they all knew that wasn't his name). Turns out Jeremy Bentham is Locke's alias - and he was the guy in the coffin in Jack's depressed flashforward. I LOVE THAT SHOW SO MUCH. If it were alive, I'd buy it things.

I'm such a slacker. I still haven't written about SYG. One day I'm gonna forget everything about it before I documented it. I'll have to brainstorm with people tonight... and after the SYG awards, the Soggies, are presented tonight. Eh... I'll write it tomorrow.

Work Experience

Well, being that it's just Tuesday night when I finish the non-boring part of work experience, I may as well write about it now. Two days somewhere, then the rest of the two weeks at school. Eugh.


Anyway, I went to the set of Neighbours for the first two days of work experience. I remember what Mrs. Hooper said in HHD a while back about youths taking risks, and what was the answer to some question, "Why is it important that youths take risks?" twas, "So they can build up the confidence to take a bigger risk." DADADAAA, YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW THAT APPLIEEEES.


Monday, 21st of April, 2008.
So, I've been staying at dad's in Ringwood since Saturday night (gotta love the 901) so he could drive me to Forest Hill easily. :D Oh how I enjoy Knox City also, mainly for it's Amber-related resources.

Yah. Went to Fremantle Studios that morning and met Rebecca, the executive producer. She introduced me to the AD, Sharon, whom I used for bag-storing purposes. :D

The whole day was watching rehearsal for an episode, airing in like, August or something. It was still exciting, but pretty damn slow. :P

Uhh... who did I meet... Matthew (Zeke), Caitlin (Rachel), Sam (Ringo), Ryan (Toadie), Eloise (Bridget), Carla (Steph) and I think that was it for the first day. I also watched Steve (Steve, haha, what are the odds), Natalie (Carmella), Stefan (Paul), Dean Geyer (Ty), David (Oliver), Blake (Ben, Libby's kid), James (Declan), Kym (Libby), and Jackie (Susan) rehearse their scripts.

Now their building is one damned confusing place. Every corridor looks IDENTICAL. The only place I could find the first couple of hours was Rebecca's office cos it's pretty close to the front. :D In the studios, I was observing rehearsal in the Kinski house (where off-camera, all the cast kept debating whether or not Caitlin wears any underwear), the General Store, the Vet and Steph's house.

At the end of the day I had to sign a disclosure saying I wouldn't let out any storyline secrets. D:

Tuesday, 22nd of April, 2008.
Okay, so the second day is a little more exciting. The previous rehearsal's episode was getting filmed that day, so there was a lot more going on.

I spent a bit of my morning upstairs in the control room where the cameras were viewed and switched and stuff for recording. I went back down to the green room eventually and such before I went and watched some filming in the studio.

During lunch, after I had eaten in the courtyard (as I did the previous day) I was sitting in the green room and Cooper arrived to check in on me ;D. Haha, we sat around talking for a bit, and she whispered to me, "I HATE NEIGHBOURS." Made me lolz. It's a bit surprising actually, I kinda figured she'd love it?!

I managed to meet... let me remember... James (Declan), whoever Erin McNaught plays... Sienna, I think it was? Meh, I also had a brief inter-change of verbal verbiness with Kym and Jackie because I accidentally walked into the table they were sitting at :P. Oh, and Imogen Bailey, who plays Nicola or something.

Wandering around between things, I was sitting in the couches in the green room watching Dr. Phil after Erin made Imogen change it from the studio's live feed, I ran into Imogen a lot. But, I ran into her always at the times I was in the same seat of the same couch, and she was always there when I was. :P Really made it seem like I didn't leave the room all day. Haha!

Which reminds me, so much weird crap happens in the green room. They're a really weird bunch.

Anyway, last scene of the day (for me anyway, left at three, TAKE THAT) at the General Store, I got to do something! Yaaay! I brought the extras some prop drinks. :P Oh, and got the director some coffee which I was shit at making. Pretty sure he threw it out. LMAO.

As I was leaving, the only people I ran into/said bye to were Sharon and Erin, so I went and waited for dad outside. But I went back inside once he came to say bye to Rebecca and not-so-subtlely drop hints that she should call me if they have auditions or wanting extras. :D Hopefully she will.

All in all, pretty damned fun two days. Heaps of the crew asked me who I was related to. I'm like wtf... not related to anybody... apparently you need to know someone there to be there. :P I must've been the first person to just write a letter and get in. CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T GET PICTURES. Oh well, I don't even have a camera. I need a job.

In the spirit of reports...

and the custom that I wrote up my whole report last year as well
I'm gonna do it again!


Home Group - Woodbridge
Home Group is pretty much pointless, but has been fun this year.

Extra Curricular Activites:
-Interschool Volleyball
-Open Day Helper
(they didn't put down City Camp?)

Woodbridge's Words:
Home Group involves marking the attendance roll for the morning, listening to relevant notices from the Daily Bulletin and participating in a short devotional time. This semester, each student has been given the opportunity to share with the group in discussion and prayer. John has been a quiet contributor. In Term 1, John aprticipated in Year 9 City Camp. His group functioned very well and he worked well within the group. He achieved a grade of VERY HIGH for his group presentation and HIGH for his eprsonal reflection.

Days Late: 6
Days Absent: 12

Head Of Senior School's Comments:
It has been great to get to know you this year, John. Keep up the good work.

(RANDOM SIGNATUUUURES)

Excellent Good Satisfactory Improve
Uniform x
Punctuality x
Manners/Attitude x
Involvement in x
Class Devotions




English - Hopkins - B+
Although Hopkins is a very intelligent English teacher, he is the spawn of Satan. I could go on a rant here, but blood would shoot out my ears. We did like a million oral speeches, and writing interpretations, etc. He is so lazy, on the graph of stuffs, he did the same as last year and put it all in one column.

Text Response: Assignment - C+
Oral Presentations - B
Writing - C
Language - A+
Text Response: Essay - B+
EXAM - A+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x



Mathematics - Weird Azn.. Lau - D+
Lol, Lau is a terrible teacher, she is 100% incompetent and blames it on everyone else. We did Algebra this semester.. although I didn't learn a thing.

Mathematical Techniques - D+
Pythagoras' Theorem - A+ (how did I get an A+ for that? I don't know what it is)
Expansion and Factorisation - E
Measurement - A
Trigonometry - UG (I was that bad that it's ungradeable?)
EXAM - D

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x

Huh? Mrs. Lewis did the same thing with the graph last year too!



Science - AJ - C+
I'm not a big Science person, and I'm not very good at it. Everything I studied for the exam easn't actually on it, haha oops. We did Gases and Light this semester.. at least that's all I can remember.

Lab Skills and Safety: Bottle Rockets - A
Gases: Prac Work - C+
Gases: Topic Test - C
Light: Prac Work - NA (?)
EXAM - E+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x



Bible Studies - Cooper - C+
Creation, Fall and Redemption. We do the same thing every year in Bible.

Creation, Fall, Redenmption Test - C+
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ (biggest assignment I've ever done) - C+
The Fall Assignment - B
The Fall Oral Presentation - C+
EXAM - B+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x



History - Hooper/Pleiter - C+
I am so bad at History. I honestly cannot recall what aspects we have been doing. I thought it was all one area that dragged out!

ABoriginal Hunting Assignment - C+
Aboriginal Society Test - NA
The Economic Developmeny of the Colony Essay - A+
EXAM - D+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x



Geography - Hooper/Pleiter - C
Again, had both Hooper and Pleiter as Hooper went on Long Service Leave in Term 2. I like Geography better than History, no doubt.

Natural Disasters Test - B
Natural Disasters Assignment - D+
Folio Assignment - Roads and Traffic - B
Test - Roads and Traffic - B
EXAM - D+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x



Dramatic Media - Moss - A+
Definitely my favourite subject. Drama + Media, thus, Dramatic Media! We had to make a short monologue for the most of the semester, which was awesome to do.

Improvisation (Individual) - A+
Improvisation ( Group) - A+
Major Project: Short Film - A
EXAM - A+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Homework x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x



VCD - Moss - B
Visual Communication and Design, it's drawing and stuff. Pretty cool! The end major project was grr though.

Cover Design - B+
Isometric Drawing - A+
One Point Perspective - B+
Two Point Perspective - C
Orthogonal Drawing - A
Rendering - C
Major Project - NA
Explanatory Diagram - D+
EXAM - A



Physical Education - AJ - UG
That's kind of funny, since I'm the only person who doesn't do PE, I got an 'Ungradeable!' But I was there for most of first term.

Fitness Testing - A+
Volleyball - NA
Soccer - NA
Cricket - NA
Hockey - NA
Netball - NA
EXAM - B+

Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Borderline NS
Behaviour x
Effort x
Organized x
Relationships x
Work Submit x




Learning Portfolio - S
Learning Portfolios are stupid, you just collate work and write about it. It's an absolute crock. You don't do it, and you fail. Hopkins graded it, stupid man.

Examplary Proficient Partial Incomplete
Samples Of Work x
Relfections (Strenghts x
and Weaknesses)
Reflections (Improvement) x
Presentation x
Overall x

What? You want a sandwich maker?

Thursday, March 8.

If I remember correctly, Thursday was the day of State Library. It was weird. They have this room where there's a giant screen and a camera so you can WATCH YOURSELF SITTING DOWN :S and so can everybody else! The place is freakin huge, and we met up with Mr Woodbridge's group there, so Emily and I were trying to run away from like 10 people and I think Mr Woodbridge caught us. Oops.

ALSO, Botanical Gardens. Which also meant the shrine of rememberance. SO. BORING. We had about an hour long tour with this old man who insisted on taking his sweet time.. arrrgghh. His nametag said Trevor, yet his ID badge said his name was John. I was so confused.

But anyway. Towards the end, we gathered around this stone thing in the floor that said "SOMETHING" I forget what it said. But the light that shone across it came from a torch or something in the roof, so we were standing in silence for a while as it happened. That guy was really misleading, so Tegan and I were looking at the stone, then the roof, then the stone, then the roof, because due to whatever he said we both didn't know where it was coming from. So Tegan noticed that and laughed through the whole thing.

Once we got out of there, the 11 or so of us with Mr Graham went down the hill to a tram stop, and Mady and Tegan took my camera and took like a BIZILLION pictures on it in like the 30 metres or so we walked.. they were behind sooo much. I dont get how they thought they would ever get any of those pictures back :D Which they won't.

ANYWAY wherever we went afterwards or before that I wasn't really sure what time that was. Oh yes. Chinatown! We had a bunch of questions to answer about the place, didn't take long at all actually. We had to find out about Miss Saigon, so Alex and I went into Tiketek which was like away from where others were.. and wehn we got back out THEY WERE GONE. So we were lost. But we found them. Hoozah.

Anyway I think we went shopping after that, and we were looking around the city for a music shop Jake wanted to find, and after AGES of shopping in other places we passed and stuff, turns out it was back where we started I think. Cranbourne Music. Fun place that was :D

Later that afternoon, we had a choice of going to Melbourne Central or Queen Vic Market. Ree, Kate and I went to Melb Central for an hour, and even though we weren't supposed to, we caught the train to Parliament for one reason: FREAKIN HUGE ESCALATORS. We ran up to one end of the platform, but the elevator up was on the OTHER END, so we ran back there, and caught the escalators down sitting down. Like 5 minutes long, it's terrific.

And we went back to Central and entered Myer. SIX BEE. the very very top of Myer in Melbourne, where nobody was there, there was just an empty foyer and an ajar door to where they were setting up the fashion show. SO INTO THE GIRLS TOILETS WE WENT! Kate carved our names in the wall LAWL and I looked in the bin for some reason and found a whole bouquet of flowers. Freshh. But disgustingly wet. So we took one out, Kate put it in my bag, and we planned on giving it to Mrs Cooper but Kate dropped the leaves one by one on the escalator for some reason.

VERY late arvo, we had research tasks to do in our groups, split in half. There was me, Alex, Jake, James, Mady and Tegan in one group, and Courtney, Josh, Andrew, Kate and Ree were in the other group.

The task was to interview a stranger.. or lots of strangers actually, about a topic. Our group's topic was multiculturalism, so Alex and I asked the question, "what is your cultural background" to a bunch of people. Tegan and Mady asked some other question, and so did Jake and James.

Alex and I got freaked out by random people, and we went into one particular asian cafe, and we asked the woman at the counter if we could ask her a question (that sounds weird.) She got MIIIGHTY confused and got the manager. EXTREMELY ASIAN MAN. He didn't get us either.

WHAT'S YOUR CUTURAL BACKGROUND?
WHAT? YOU WANT SANDWICH MAKER?
NO, WE JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR CULTURAL BACKGROUND IS
YOU WANT JOB? AHYYEE?
WHAT THE. CULTURAL BACKGROUND. WE DONT WANT A JOIB OR SANDIWHC MAKER.
oh. chinese.
KAYBYE.
*world explodes*

WHOOO that night! Pizza! On Lygon Street! They had pasta too thankfully! Yay! Sara and I were on a table with.. *recounts* Wes, Nicole, Zoe, and like 5 others ahaha I forget. OH STEPH was there.. probably Emily. Yes, Emily.. I dont remember who else. but I think there were nine of us. Anyway Sara and I were being ghosts to Ree and Kate, not sure how that started but we were going ooooo. followed by a OOOO!!!

It ended with Ree and I texting each other while staring. At each other. To piss each other off. But eventually Sara and I just went over there and talked to her anyway.

That night at darkness, we walked over to Crown, and Ree and I passed that asian guy from yesterday drawing people was back. So we went out of our way to avoid him.

We went to.. GALACTIC CIRCUS! the biggest arcade around! Free games for two hours! Except we could only do the prizeless and ticketless ones, which didn't leave us with much to do, but we ended up playing racing games most of the time =D and air hockey. I think it dislocated my shoulder :(

Actually, Brianna, can you get out?

Wednesday, March 7.
WOOO CITY CAMP! City Camp, was, and I am not underestimating here, was the biggest high-fiving, hugging, staring contest, racist 3 days of my life. Seriously. Anyway. We got to the station at like 8:40 or so, and I tried shoving everything into one bag but I couldn't. Rather pissed at that. ANYWAY. I believe I then met up with Sara, and we all caught the train to the city, and Sara was also rather pissed that she brought a GIANT wheely bag and nobody else did.

And I have a feeling that on the train ride up, I was just staring at Ree cuz she was in my eyesight, waiting for her to stare back (as Zach and I were talking about We Can Be Heroes when pat just stares at her husband until he cracks) and I don't believe she did, unless she did and just looked away out of shyness.

YAY I finished my sausage roll. Ow shit my tooth >_<

ANYWAY. After lots of Sara's bitching and talking to Zach about We Can Be Heroes, we got off at Melb Central and walked to Franklin St in Melbourne, the stayance of our group. At a backpacker's hotel. We all lugged our stuff up like 6 flights of stairs or something, which was a real treat for us all, especially Sara. Into a random door and down a very long red corridor (past an all boys school I believe, year 11s) and to our rooms.

We all dumped our stuff in room 220 I think it was, yeah. Coz it's a big room with like six bunk beds. The teachers there were Woodbridge, Graham, Hooper and Cooper (rofl). Woodbridge speeched about something, not really sure I was asleep practically, and we were given keys to get into our rooms.

The keys were just cards that you slide unto the annoying lock thing on the door handle that I NEVER worked. Actually once I think. But besides that :(

yeah Tegan and I probably high-fived about 60 times already that half-day coz we are really. really cool. :D

And of course every time I saw Zach we were quoting We Can be heroes, such as "Actually, Brianna, can you get out?" or "A GUMNUT'S GONE UP MY NOSE".

I still remember the first thing I said to Alex, as she came to the school like a few weeks ago. "You went to Hasting's Day?" as she went to hasting's day (I eavesdrop). So did I. She went on the same day i did. Only later. Now Alex and I are complete breast friends.

Okay after the lunch that we were supposed to bring but I didn't eat for one reason or another (lazy) we split up into four groups of disappointment to do activities in the city with. We had to learn how to catch trams and. (yeah I spose that was it really).

It went alphabetically, so Kate, Ree, jake, james, Josh, Andrew, Mady, Tegan, Alex, Courtney and I were all in group two with Mr. Graham/AJ. yes, they are one person. We left the hotel and went across the street to the 7/11 and the Boost Bar thing. Tegan and I high-fived a few 10 or so more times, and we did a really good one and I said "Wow we should have recorded that!" which Tegan found funny. As did I. i laugh at my own jokes.

I forget where we went first. LIVING IN THE CBD! I don't remember a thing from it!

AND THEN AFTER THAT. it was. something else? I don't remember that either OH WAIT. Botanical Gardens! With the shrine of rememberance! That was sooo boring. Some old guy leading us around, and i was getting really pissed because his nametag said 'Trevor' but his ID card said 'John' so I was utterly confused.

As we had finished our tasks early, we went to Federation Square for the last one actually, which was to collect info downstairs or something. And the big curvy square thing itself that's on Spencer St/Flinders St near the Flinders Station had a message board. You could text a message to it and it appears on the screen. So Courtney and I texted it saying 'JOHN AND COURTNEY ROCK! 5 5 5 5 5!' because of our obssession with the number five. Courtney took a video of it on her phone, and jake told us we needed lives.

We texted it a few more times and it was really cool.

YEAH! THEN RANDOM WALKING AROUND FOR TWO HOURS! To like music shops and such. Ree and I spotted a filthy old asian man who was drawing portraits of people on the side of the street. We offereed two bucks for us. REJECTEDDD. Four? REJECTEDDD. Then some couple got theirs done for like 20 bucks, and he really sucked. Ree and I were so shut down.

Anyway that night, we went on a walk around Chinatown, in which everyone was going NEEHOW to every asian they saw, which means Hello in Chinese apparently. It was so racist, because well, it's the year nines. :)

So we got to some Chinese place, which wasn't that bad, as I just had lots of rice, which is nice. Since I got credit the night before, I called home and announced I had tried soy sauce that night, and this was DURING the dinner too. Very loud.

THEN RIALTO TIME! At night! The city is rather beautiful. We took photos in the photo booth at the top, in which CLARE AND I JUST WANTED ONE FREAKING PHOTO TOGETHER and everybody was hitting the cover and kicking us and stuff. Someone was kicking the back of my knees for ages (which I later found out was Tegan) so I eventually got really pissed and turned around and kicked below the cover thing, and apparently I got Cameron. :D

We tried getting photos with Ree too, because we were so disappointed about that asian drawing man that we needed to get a photo in some way. BUT WE NEVER GOT ONE AT THE MACHINE.

THankfully, Zach, Clare, Sara and I got a photo together of us all doing the 'This is me looking really shocked at how thin she looks' pose which is incredibly hot. And Elise gavae me a sticker of her and Suzie, so all three of those photos are now stuck to my phone.

The hotel had a nice common room with bean bags and a television that we like to bum around in. But at 11 it was time for bed... I was in a room with Daniel, Jake, Dean, Sharpy, Matt, Zach, Dave, and James. Somehow it came up around Religion, and Jake was getting quite into it and was forcing his opinions on Zach for about an hour or so.

Yes, jake, forcing your opinions. You're pushy, deal with it. <4

More to come, shrubs!

The sun will come out tomorrow! (AKA. Annie)

I was gonna do this blog and the next one, or two, depends, probably one, as one blog, but I'm afraid the whole thing will bugger up and I'll have to do it all again like I did with my report one. So I'll just write about Annie here.

Monday, September 12.
The very first day of Annie training at the school that we were performing it at. Oh boy was that hellish. We didn't get to use the real change rooms, and my part was too damn quiet, I was really bad at it. The guys had to go out and change in the toilets of the EMC Gym.. WHERE THERE WERE PEOPLE. And EMC people suck, trust me. The all think they're top shit. It was actually rather depressing. For them, not me. I just laughed at them for being so stupid.

Tuesday, September 13.
The performance is the very next day and we are so obviously totally not ready. But meh. xD we still didn't get the change rooms this time either, and Zoe and I told Cara to come to the back stage door at recess, and she did. She got shooed off by little kids. Then she came back at lunch, and we spoke for like 3 minutes before little kids told on them and got Cara and her friends kicked out. I hate children.

Wednesday, September 14.
Well now it's the night of the very first performance, at EMC, and we went through it with flying colours. We somehow made some sort of a fluke and went through it much better than we had rehearsed it. For instance, Warren dropped a champagne glass by accident and yelled out, "THAT'S MY FINE CHINA!" Everybody laughed! Well I didn't. I wasn't there, I was backstage. But I kept hearing about it, soooo much!

Thursday, September 15.
The second night of performing, we all sucked that night. It didn't go as well as Wednesday, but apparently it sold like 80 tickets on THAT DAY because people thought it was really good the previous night. Hilarity box! At the end of the show, Sofi had decided that the year 8's decided to give all the people who worked on the production a little gift. I GOT TO GIVE SHAD CHOCOLATES. The crowning touch, believe me. Anyway, I got outside afterwards, and I went to bother people and say bye to them, and who should I run into but CARA JADE HERSELF. Yes, her and her mother got tickets at the door, on the night, and now Cara won't stop saying Oxydent. Blahajdhads! So I talked with Cara for a while, and I later was introduced to Cara's mum, who I called Mrs. Cara Jade, sea monkies all around.

And then I left, never to return until the very next term...

BECAUSE I WENT TO QUEENSLAND THE NEXT DAY! Read the enxt blog for more details, that's if it's been invented yet, which would depend on whether or not you're reading this while you're all asleep and I'm still up writing this at 5:30 in the morning. What am I even doing up at this hour? I JUST DON'T KNOW. I think it's starting to get a bit light. I hear birds chirping and I thought I saw a bit of horizon outside. =D

Now for that thing I haven't done in a while, what my MSN names mean! The previous one for March 18, I remember was from a Simpsons episode, fairly new, with the guy who trained dugongs/manatees. Yeeeeeeah.

Mar 19 jerrrneee ~ They both died doing what they love... rafting.
JD is fed up with listening to the story Carla and Ron are talking about. Carla comes to the conclusion that they both died. JD says, "Oh, thank GOD!" in relief that the story is over. Then he needs to cover for it.
Mar 20 jerrrneee ~ Cleanliness is next to not dying ness.
Was this off Spongebob? Or was it some other quote off Spongebob that went along the same lines as that?
Mar 21 jerrrneee ~ Great cow of Moscow!
I think it was one of the random exclamations that Hermes would blurt out every so often on Futurama.
Mar 22 jerrrneee ~ This is a man that believes the plural of goose is sheep.
Lois on Family Guy: Do you want this man to be looking after your children? This is a man that believes the plural of goose is sheep. Vote for me!
Mar 23 jerrrneee ~ The in-your-face interface.
Just one of the many components of Bender.
Mar 24 jerrrneee ~ I am Bender. Please insert girder.
From the same episode as above, Bender's free will and brain disk is removed and that is all he can say.
Mar 25 jerrrneee ~ They said I probably shouldn't fly with just one eye!
Again, the same episode, something Leela randomly sang.
Mar 26 jerrrneee ~ Warb of the worlds.
On one of the Simpsons halloween episodes, this was what one of those modified credit names said.
Mar 28 jerrrneee ~ Coming soon to an illegal DVD.
A tagline at the beginning of a Futurama episode.
Mar 29 jerrrneee ~ Ruby Joe was having a little female trouble of his own.
Bah, I don't remember, but it was really good! NYEEEE!
Mar 30 jerrrneee ~ Sweets for the sweet!
The gay waiter at the Sacred Heart Hospital that they would act gay infront of to get free food. One time he gave JD cake, while declaring, "Sweets for the sweet!"
Mar 31 jerrrneee ~ That's not crime! That's a box with CRIME written on it!
IT'S BURNT FACE MAN!!
Apr 1 jerrrneee ~ Teenage kids washing cars for money; is there anything more arousing?
Something mister Tom Tucker said as a finishing round-up for a filler story on the news.
Apr 2 jerrrneee ~ Nice and hollow, mister roboto.
How Homer says he likes the waffles his robot prepares.

Now then, it's best for me to be off! It's almost 6am, and I'm yet to sleep. I'll go to sleep when everybody is awake. Bwahahah!!

I'll write another blog when man walks on the sun.

Word Count: 1,035

Bake me a pie, Martha. (AKA woww. big day, mum's bday, jelly baby.)

Ghahahaa. It's mum's birthday today. 48. Oldie. In the morning, I had to get at school at 8:30 for SRC, to get ready for the dealy. Collecting money, coz it was FREE DRESS DAY XD of course, I didnt collect money, no, I went down to I Block dressed as a giant purple jelly baby.

8:30.
Me: *comes in to the office. only other person there is yr 12 caz.*
Mrs. Rietveld: oh, good... *looking grateful* sinc you're so brave, WEAR THIS.

(well, basically)

Lawl, well, I had a really heavy backpack that sprayed air into the silk suit, and a giant head twice or three times my own head on the top. It was crazy. I had to balance my head so I could see with my real chin.

ANyway, we went around to home groups getting money off people, and I dressed in it again at lunch and took photos with little bastard children poking me and stuff. I hate them allllll.

Cara asked me to go to Frankston today.. haha too bad, I went out for dinner instead at Fratelli's. It was alright =P Me, Mum, Saarah, Ben and Ross went. Swellination! Haha, like at a diagonaly table away, there was a booth, with a mum, dad, a really tiny kid and another kid (which I didnt see, the dad was in the way =P) anyway, the kid was staring at us, so we stared back. Sarah made a retarded happy face, and I pointed at him. After a while he got upset and we saw him go, "mummy..." so we were like, AHH SHIT LOOK DOWN. and the mum was apparently glaring at us, I didn't see. Haha, the kid was still scared so he swapped seats with his creppy brutish father so the kid ditn have to look at us.

The dad was fxcking staring at us for the rest of the night.

Straight after taht, at like 8, me, Ben and Sarah drove up to KRISPY KREME, BITCH. In like, Narre Warren. The drive thru was empy and there were lines of like 30 asians inside. "Okay, drive thru." Went in, out in like a minute. Now we have 2 boxes, all up 24 donuts, to scoff down. Still not done.

When the three of us got home, Ross and Mum werent there, and we didnt have keys. Luckily Sarah knew the way in:

BREAK IN!

The bathroom window aint locked so we took of the flywire and went in. Now I'm here writing this blog =P

Word Count: 430